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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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